33 sats \ 1 reply \ @0260378aef 29 Aug 2022 \ parent \ on: Why did OpenBazaar Fail? bitcoin
Agree with this accounting.
There is limited, but definitely not zero, demand for this kind of thing. Towards the end of the project's lifetime they actually set up a mobile app, which is probably the last piece making it viable.
Whether it's viable as a business I'm not convinced at all, but as a protocol for casual p2p commerce it may well be, now we have a mature Lightning network (though it will emphatically only get used for niches here and there, not like it's going to replace Amazon et al.).
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinosphere 30 Aug 2022
It never could have been a viable business, even if there was more buyer & seller demand... That's the nature of decentralized markets.
But I still hold out hope that one day that code will be in use instead of dark markets after someone brushes it off and adds the Lightning Network & TOR by default to it.
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